The purpose of this study was to: (1) describe sleep patterns in menstruating women sleeping at home, (2) determine the effect of a nighttime magnetic field and other exposures on sleep, and (3) examine the association ...

Background: Tenofovir is a potent anti-HIV agent with efficacy in studies of pre-exposure prophylaxis when taken orally or used as an intravaginal gel. Recent studies suggest that tenofovir also reduces the risk of HSV-2 ...

Added sugars from sweetened beverages contribute a substantial number of calories to the American diet with numerous associated negative health effects. There is a need to evaluate the different effects of fructose, ...

Background: HIV/AIDS continues to be a devastating disease of great global importance despite the fact that antiretroviral therapy (ART) is a proven effective treatment. In the last decade, there have been massive efforts ...

Consistent and compelling links between long-term air pollutant exposure and respiratory and cardiovascular disease have been established. Far less is known regarding the impact of air pollution on the brain. Using ...

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) surveillance and preemptive therapy (PET) is the most commonly used strategy for CMV disease prevention in hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) recipients. In 2007, we introduced a CMV prevention ...

<bold>Aim.</bold> Though cervical cytology screening has been shown to reduce cervical cancer incidence and mortality among reproductive-age women, there are but limited data regarding the efficacy of screening older women. ...

Although the use of exogenous hormones, such as hormone therapy (HT) and oral contraceptives (OC), is known to be positively associated with the risk of venous thrombosis (VT), the endogenous hormonal environment associated ...

INTRODUCTION: Interactions between STIs can be complex and difficult to disentangle. These conditions share a common group of sexual risk factors, which may lead to the identification of non-causal associations. Studies ...

Background: Youth with both depressive disorders (DD) and conduct disorders (CD) have more impairment and worse outcomes than those with either type of psychopathology alone, yet the literature on population burden, ...

Introduction/Objective Motor vehicle collisions (MVC) are the leading cause of bladder injury in the United States. The National Automotive Sampling System-Crashworthiness Data System (NASS-CDS), a national population ...

<bold>Background</bold>. Regular physical activity has an abundance of physical and mental health benefits; however much remains to be elucidated about the benefits of long-term versus short-term activity for cancer ...